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Guillaume de Machaut
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1304-1377, ars nova style, Messe de Notre Dame, also wrote ballades
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Guillaume Du Fay
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1400-1474, L'homme mass, secular words to sacred music
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Josquin De Prez
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1440-1521, greatest Franco-Flemish composer, bridged Middle Ages to Renaissance, motet for four voices
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Giovanni da Palestrina
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1525-1594, Italian, worked for the Vatican, Pope Marcellus Mass, very traditional, high point of Renaissance polyphony
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John Farmer
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Wrote English madrigals
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Claudio Montiverdi
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First great baroque composer, wrote madrigals and operas (L'Orfeo), specified instruments in the musical score, word-painting in madrigals
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Gabrieli
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Worked at St. Marks in Venice, split choirs into diffrent parts of the church, contrast between groups
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Corelli
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First composer to make a career selling printed music, write only instumental music, and have his works played and studied long after his death, trio sonata
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Purcell
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One of the best English composers of all time, wrote for the court as well as stage works, Dido and Aeneas sung all the way through, ground bass aria
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